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Informationen zum Autor Joan Gibbons is former Senior Lecturer and Course Director of the Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the University of Central England, Birmingham, UK. Klappentext Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory, Gibbons explores art as autobiography, the memory as trace, the role of the archive, revisionist memory and postmemory, as well as the absence of memory in oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents, Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE, Doris Salcedo, Keith Piper, Jeremy Deller, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff, Bill Fontana, Pierre Huyghe, Susan Hiller, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi and new media artist George Legrady."Contemporary Art and Memory" will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent and remember the past.?????Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory, contemporary art, it would seem, is haunted by the past. This title explores the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Zusammenfassung Whether exploring the intimate recollections which make up the artist's own life history or questioning the way the gallery and museum present public memory! contemporary art! it would seem! is haunted by the past. "Contemporary Art and Memory" is the first accessible survey book to explore the subject of memory as it appears in its many guises in contemporary art. Looking at both personal and public memory! Gibbons explores art as autobiography! the memory as trace! the role of the archive! revisionist memory and postmemory! as well as the absence of memory in oblivion. Grounding her discussion in historical precedents! Gibbons explores the work of a wide range of international artists including Yinka Shonibare MBE! Doris Salcedo! Keith Piper! Jeremy Deller! Judy Chicago! Louise Bourgeois! Tracey Emin! Felix Gonzalez-Torres! Christian Boltanski! Janet Cardiff! Bill Fontana! Pierre Huyghe! Susan Hiller! Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi and new media artist George Legrady."Contemporary Art and Memory" will be indispensable to all those concerned with the ways in which artists represent and remember the past.????? Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForewordIntroduction1. Autobiography: The Externalisation of Personal Memory2. Traces: Memory and Indexicality3. Revisions: The Reassembling of ‘History’4. Postmemory: ‘The Ones Born Afterwards’5. Enactments, Re-enactments and Episodic Memory6. The Ordering of Knowledge: Museums and ArchivesEpilogue Oblivion: The Limits of MemoryNotesBibliographyIndex...
